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This is the beginning of the end for Intel. It would've been anyway, but Apple has such a strong influence in the tech industry (considering everyone wants to c

• leoedin 15y ago
  It's going to be a long time before desktop OS's running on ARM are as accepted as they are on x86, simply because of software compatibility. Apple's probably in better shape on that front (having already moved architectures once, and so having more of a system to include a compatibility layer), but users are going to be questioning why 95% of their software doesn't run, or runs very slowly, on their new and expensive laptop. The middle ground is something like a Chromebook, which gets around the problem by not running any legacy apps. However, despite what Google thinks there's a lot of utility in a laptop outside of the browser, and people who have software that they need to run will not be moving over to ARM for a long time.
  • nextparadigms 15y ago
    If people were willing to buy netbooks, they will be willing to buy something like this, too, which should even work better than Windows 7 on a single core Atom. I agree that Chromebook should've done this a long time ago. But I wonder if they think Cortex A9 was subpar, and they're just waiting for Cortex A15 to do it. A $200 Tegra 3 Chromebook would've still been more appealing than a dual core Atom $400 one.